Former WWE star set for huge tag match at Awesome Championship Wrestling, talks importance of Soleil character

Soleil will return to nan skies connected Saturday nighttime during Awesome Championship Wrestling’s (ACW) Indypendence Day successful a tag squad lucifer pinch Dante Casanova arsenic they look to get 1 complete connected nan duo known arsenic The Righteous.

Sidney Akeem, nan former WWE star, is nan man down nan mask. It will beryllium his first quality astatine ACW since 2025 astatine Mischief Night erstwhile he took connected Casanova and AJZ successful a triple-threat match. Casanova was nan victor of that conflict and now gets to squad pinch Soleil.

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Soleil successful an ACW ring. (Jay Adam Photography)

He told Fox News Digital he was excited to get an opportunity to return connected Vincent and Dutch arsenic they person progressed arsenic 1 of nan apical tag teams crossed pro wrestling, chiefly competing successful Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) connected Thursday nights.

"I'm not going to opportunity there's immoderate nerves. I've been successful nan ringing pinch a batch of awesome talent successful my career," he said. "This is nan first clip I get to tangle pinch The Righteous and I'm excited. Actually, I was talking to nan brothers not excessively agelong ago, telling them really overmuch I bask their activity and truthful getting to stock nan shape successful nan ringing pinch them is going to beryllium fun.

"It's going to beryllium different because maine and Dante Casanova, you know, this came together unexpectedly, but I deliberation we're 2 guys that are done proving ourselves that we beryllium successful this wrestling world, nan ACW locker room. I deliberation we've much than proved that we belong. I deliberation correct now it's astir making a statement. Making a connection and making an effect and dream this tag squad division."

The expertise to deterioration nan disguise again is an important portion for Soleil.

He said he’s been moving connected nan characteristic for respective years and tried to introduce it successful WWE but it ne'er took off. He was known arsenic Scrypts and Reggie during his clip pinch nan company.

Soleil does a flip successful Awesome Championship Wrestling. (Jay Adam Photography)

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"Yeah, I mean this is nan caller maine and this is besides nan existent me," he explained to Fox News Digital. "Everyone knows Sidney Akeem, erstwhile WWE superstar Reggie, NXT prima Scrypts, and you cognize I ne'er rather recovered my footing of who I really americium erstwhile I was successful WWE and past erstwhile I sewage to nan indies I had a awesome tally arsenic Sidney Akeem, but thing was missing. Something was missing not only from myself but that relationship pinch nan fans each astir nan world. And so, I've had this characteristic Soleil. … I've been creating it for almost opportunity six years and it ne'er came together because it was conscionable it wasn't nan correct clip and successful NXT this is what I wanted Scrypts to be, but it was excessively galore chefs successful nan kitchen. I did debut this on Ring of Honor but nan existent debut for Soleil pinch nan music, nan jumbotron everything was connected ACW.

"So, nan truth that I debuted this character, nan existent me, and connected ACW. I deliberation it's only fitting that moving forward. You whitethorn spot Sidney Akeem again. But it’s Soleil because it’s what I guidelines for and what it intends to not only myself, but truthful galore group astir nan world. This is simply a motion of courageousness of breaking those barriers of nan boxes they tried to support group in. I grew up successful a spot wherever you weren't allowed to beryllium a superhero. You weren't allowed to beryllium your existent aforesaid and truthful you put these masks connected to beryllium different people. Well, this disguise is put connected to show you who I really am. And it's Soleil, nan acheronian sun who comes from nan circus but now making his statemen, his footing successful nan wrestling world."

Soleil said he wants to definitive to nan assemblage that it was OK to definitive who you are arsenic a person. You tin beryllium a superhero and alert done nan aerial for illustration he can.

"The wrestling world is large and you tin effort to target a definite group of group aliases you tin effort to target everyone. I recovered who I want to beryllium a awesome for and it's truthful galore kids astir nan world that not only look for illustration me, but that spell done aliases went done things that I went done successful my life and fto them cognize that it's OK to unlock your soul superhero," he said. "It's OK that you dream large and sometimes a small crazy and outlandish because nan world will show america no. People will show america no.

Soleil enters nan ring. (Smoothlenz Photography)

"And Soleil is maine telling everyone yes. It doesn't matter wherever you travel from aliases what you've done earlier aliases what your estimation mightiness be. There's a superhero wrong of everyone. And I want group to understand that I'm not conscionable putting a disguise connected tas a arsenic a gimmick. I'm putting a disguise connected because this is genuinely who I am. I already move for illustration a superhero. And circus group nan closest point to existent life superheroes that we person for each of nan things that we do. And I said I'm not successful nan circus anymore, I'm successful nan wrestling world and wrestling started successful nan circus. So, this is nan story. There's truthful overmuch deeper than conscionable putting a disguise connected arsenic a gimmick."

Even arsenic a superhero character, Soleil was not precisely committed to having 1 tag team’s backmost who antecedently had a vulnerable acquisition pinch The Righteous

At Reckoning successful May, The Righteous came retired of nan backmost and handcuffed Hale Collins to nan cage arsenic Vik Dalishus was getting hit up by Sent 2 Slaughter’s Danny Maff and Shawn Donovan.

The Now and Sent 2 Slaughter will beryllium connected other sides of nan ringing again connected Saturday arsenic they are participating successful a lumberjack lucifer betwixt Tommy Dreamer and Josh Shernoff.

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"I'm besides connected my ain travel and I understand that Dante has now entered into my world, into my journey. We conscionable person to spot really nan cards are dealt because I can't show you correct now that, yes, I will person this person's backmost aliases that person's back," Soleil told Fox News Digital. "We, regardless, of really assured we are, we person a gangly task successful beforehand of us. The Righteous, they aren't walkovers. We are going into this lucifer believing that we tin win, but we can't spell successful it halfcocked and not focused reasoning that, oh, this is conscionable cake-work because it's evidently not 1 of nan champion tag teams successful this business that we have. So, that's a mobility that we’re going to person to transverse erstwhile we get there."

Indypendence Day takes spot astatine nan MJN Center connected Saturday successful Poughkeepsie, New York.